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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2003
Eric Gouriou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Hundt, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sujoy Saraswati, Karnataka, IN;
Sushanth Rai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward Sharpe, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Eric Gouriou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Hundt, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sujoy Saraswati, Karnataka, IN;
Sushanth Rai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward Sharpe, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A monitoring interface, includes logic responsive to a pre-fork event, the pre-fork event responsive to a vfork system call. The pre-fork event includes indicia that identifies a child process to be created in accordance with the vfork system call. A method for controlling the execution of a child process created from a parent process, where the parent process is monitored by a software tool includes, receiving indicia that a vfork system call will be executed by the parent process, suspending execution of the parent process, extracting a process identifier from the indicia of the vfork system call, the process identifier corresponding to a child process to be generated by the parent process when the parent process executes the vfork system call, setting a process monitor thread to observe the child process, and resuming execution of the parent process to enable the parent process to execute past the vfork system call.